A motion filed in Orange County Superior Court accuses the city of Huntington Beach of violating the free-speech rights of a man the city is trying to stop from circulating a petition seeking a local ban on semiautomatic and automatic guns.

Newport-Mesa Unified School District officials completed a comprehensive review of their 34 schools and the district offices last week and said fencing will be installed around the perimeters of several campuses after summer break starts.

Many people who responded to an online survey on the attributes they’d like to see in Newport Beach’s next city manager said they want someone a lot like the current city manager, Dave Kiff, who plans to leave this summer.

The Laguna Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to direct staff to begin preparing a ballot measure that would ask residents in November to approve a 1-cent sales tax toward undergrounding utilities on Laguna Canyon Road and other key evacuation routes.